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Webinar Available on REACH
November 23, 2009 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
NEEDHAM, MA — PTC and Tech-Clarity presented a webcast, "Prepare Your Products - and Your Business - for REACH," which reviews recent developments with the REACH regulation, how products and businesses will be impacted, and how leading companies are responding to the REACH challenge despite limited time and resources. Speakers are Jim Brown, president, Tech-Clarity and John Fox, director, product and market strategy, PTC.
Topics include recent developments with the REACH regulation, new industry challenges, and implications. The webinar also presents results of a new REACH industry survey, conducted in July 2009 by research firm Tech-Clarity. How are leading companies addressing REACH systematically: What’s working and what’s not? Emerging best practices and key recommendations are given, and the webinar includes a demonstration of PTC’s REACH software solution (InSight Environmental Compliance).
To view the webinar, visit http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/forms/index.jsp?im_dbkey=95194&icg_dbkey=482
Also Read: REACH Exposed: Stressing Environmental Compliance Jim Dills, The GoodBye Chain Group, provides an update on REACH legislation.
Step-by-Step: Process Control — Eco Lifecycle AssessmentIn the new green business climate, global manufacturing companies must continually assess and improve their products and processes to retain customers; gain competitive advantage; and comply with environmental legislation like RoHS, REACH, WEEE, and EuP.
The Double Edged Sword for Green Initiatives The green movement sweeping across companies worldwide may be politically and environmentally correct, but it also is creating some concerns among electronic manufacturers who are at the front line of these initiatives. Chris Rehl, CIMTEK , explains that increasing regulations that limit or restrict the use of materials in the assembly of electronic circuit boards is reinventing the wheel for most manufacturers.